Ayub 35:11

35:11 who teaches us ¹  more than ²  the wild animals of the earth,

and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Ayub 28:21

28:21 For ³  it has been hidden

from the eyes of every living creature,

and from the birds of the sky it has been concealed.

[35:11]  ¹ tn The form in the text, the Piel participle from אָלַף (’alaf, “teach”) is written in a contracted form; the full form is מְאַלְּפֵנוּ (mÿ’allÿfenu).

[35:11]  ² tn Some would render this “teaches us by the beasts.” But Elihu is stressing the unique privilege humans have.

[28:21]  ³ tn The vav on the verb is unexpressed in the LXX. It should not be overlooked, for it introduces a subordinate clause of condition (R. Gordis, Job, 310).